Chris Snook wrote: > Okay, so now you have to modify ls, cp, tar, and thousands of other > applications to be aware of the versioning, otherwise you can't use it. > > Please don't get hung up on the interface. This is a really cool > feature that will require some serious engineering work to make it work > right. There's no need to reinvent hidden files as well, since we > already have a decades-old standard for that. I realise that but the way this is designed has quickly become a pain in the past. I think that it would be easier to implement somthing like what was suggested in this email: http://www.ussg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0706.2/1156.html I'm thinking of writing a simple proof of concept version and then seeing what people think from there. Jack - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html